Volupté
@VolupteJournal
Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies
Don’t miss our enchanting new call for submissions! Following the @DecadentStudies 2023 symposium ‘Decadence and the Fairy Tale’, our Winter issue will explore decadent fairy tales, guest edited by @Eleanor_Keane1 & Dr James Dowthwaite. #DecadentFairyTales volupte.gold.ac.uk/call-for-submi…
Do you have some decadent thoughts? Send them to the professionals.
Don’t miss our enchanting new call for submissions! Following the @DecadentStudies 2023 symposium ‘Decadence and the Fairy Tale’, our Winter issue will explore decadent fairy tales, guest edited by @Eleanor_Keane1 & Dr James Dowthwaite. #DecadentFairyTales volupte.gold.ac.uk/call-for-submi…
We’re in our ‘Yellow Book’ summer, and looking forward to spending sunny afternoons poring over the incredible articles in our most recent issue. It’s a must-read! #Decadence #decadent #DecadentWomen #VolupteJournal 💛
We’re entering our ‘yellow’ season…join us in celebrating the extraordinary community of women at the heart of ‘The Yellow Book’! Volupté Vol. 7, Issue 2 ‘Yellow Book Women’ is here, guest edited by Lucy Ella Rose and Louise Wenman-James. volupte.gold.ac.uk/yellow-book-wo… 💛📒✨👏
Long time coming, but a new article is now out with Afterimage: “Decadent Scenography: Angel Rose Denman, Hollywood Goth”. Angel’s work is fascinating – a self-proclaimed “daughter of decadence”, green, a little mottled, and FABULOUS. Check it out here: online.ucpress.edu/afterimage
Thank you to all the fantastic speakers for their rich and thought provoking papers at @DecadentStudies #DecadenceAndWar symposium yesterday! 🖤👏👏👏 bads.gold.ac.uk/2025-decadence…
And of course my own paper, featured on the last Conflicted Masculinities/Conflicted Modernities, on flowers and decadent incels #DecadenceAndWar @DecadentStudies @VolupteJournal
Last paper of the day! Rounding off our Conflicted Masculinities/Conflicted Modernities panel, we have Sebastian A. Kukavica on the crusade against modernity in Léon Bloy’s The Desperate Man’ #DecadenceAndWar @DecadentStudies @VolupteJournal
Anna Shane kicks off our final panel, Conflicted Masculinities/Conflicted Modernities, with a discussion of decadent masculinities in E.W. Hornung’s Raffles stories #DecadenceAndWar @DecadentStudies @VolupteJournal
A beautiful musical interlude to #WarAndDecadence: Elena Borelli on harp while David Carter dramatically recites her translation of Giovanni Pascoli’s Gog and Magog @DecadentStudies @VolupteJournal
Rounding off our Chaos and Culture Wars panel is Philippa Burt speaking on Edward Gordon Craig’s war against British Theatre #DecadenceAndWar @DecadentStudies @VolupteJournal
Joseph Dunne-Howrie now leads us in a discussion on the links between Decadence and the War on “Woke” #DecadenceAndWar @DecadentStudies @VolupteJournal
Sondeep Kandola kicks off our second panel, ‘Chaos and Culture Wars’, discussing Wilde’s Ballad of Reading Gaol #DecadenceAndWar @DecadentStudies @VolupteJournal
We found our Conflicted Nations panel with Margaret Stetz on late-Victorian women writers on war #DecadenceAndWar @DecadentStudies @VolupteJournal
Next up is Aliju Kim discussing the Decadent ruins of the Korean War #DecadenceAndWar @DecadentStudies @VolupteJournal
And we’re off! Sally Blackburn-Daniels kicks off #DecadenceAndWar with a discussion of #VernonLee’s pacifist aesthetics and the art of war @VolupteJournal @DecadentStudies
A brilliant day at @GoldsmithsEng yesterday with fascinating papers for @DecadentStudies #DecadenceAndWar!
Safely arrived at @GoldsmithsEng, one of my favourite campuses for conferences, for @DecadentStudies @VolupteJournal’s #DecadenceAndWar 🖤
Very excited for this, when I’ll be talking about incels and flowers in Wilde and Huysmans 🖤
✨ This Friday!✨ the full programme for @DecadentStudies ‘Decadence and War’ is available here: bads.gold.ac.uk/2025-decadence… #DecadenceAndWar @GoldsmithsEng
✨ This Friday!✨ the full programme for @DecadentStudies ‘Decadence and War’ is available here: bads.gold.ac.uk/2025-decadence… #DecadenceAndWar @GoldsmithsEng
Less than three weeks to go until #DecadenceAndWar at @GoldsmithsEng! We can’t wait! Tickets are now ✨sold out✨ so please email the @DecadentStudies team if you’d like to attend remotely! More details: bads.gold.ac.uk/2025-decadence… #Decadence
More decadent happenings @GoldsmithsEng
Less than three weeks to go until #DecadenceAndWar at @GoldsmithsEng! We can’t wait! Tickets are now ✨sold out✨ so please email the @DecadentStudies team if you’d like to attend remotely! More details: bads.gold.ac.uk/2025-decadence… #Decadence